Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction Versus the Richness of Being

by Paul Karl Feyerabend

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From flea bites to galaxies, from love affairs to shadows, Paul Feyerabend reveled in the sensory and intellectual abundance that surrounds us. He found it equally striking that human senses and human intelligence are able to take in only a fraction of these riches. "This a blessing, not a drawback," he writes. "A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed." This human reduction of experience to a manageable level is the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226245330

ISBN13:9780226245331

Release Date:December 1999

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:303 Pages

Weight:5.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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